{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20131205163646/http://hankjohnson.house.gov/press-release/rep-johnson-calls-white-house-look-apps-act-foundation-consumer-privacy-bill-rights", "Rep. Johnson Calls on White House to Look to APPS Act as Foundation for the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights", "2013-10-24", "2013", "2013-10", "Democrat", "House", "GA", "Hank Johnson", "J000288", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Hank Johnson (GA-04) sent a letter to President Obama encouraging the president to consider H.R. 1913, the APPS Act, as the basis for comprehensive privacy legislation.\u00a0\nPolitico reports that the White House is coordinating with the Department of Commerce to draft legislation that will \u201cboost online privacy safeguards for consumers\u201d by building upon the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, the blueprint for privacy protection that the White House released last year.\u00a0\nIn his letter, Congressman Johnson called the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights \u201ca watershed moment in consumer privacy.\u201d\u00a0\nCalling on President Obama to \u201cstrike the right balance between innovation and responsibility,\u201d Congressman Johnson also called on the White House and Department of Commerce to continue protecting consumers in an open and transparent approach through a multi-stakeholder process.\u00a0\nIn August, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) concluded its first multi-stakeholder process to develop a code of conduct for transparency of data collection on mobile devices.\u00a0 Congressman Johnson applauded the process, noting that it demonstrated \u201cthe willingness of developers, stakeholders, and public-interest groups to come together with principles to inform and protect consumers.\u201d\u00a0\nIn 2012, Congressman Johnson launched AppRights as an open, bottom-up approach to drafting legislation that will protect the privacy of mobile device users.\u00a0 The result was the APPS Act.\u00a0 The bill was based on the thoughts and values of the people who weighed-in through AppRights, and it\u2019s also the first bipartisan mobile privacy legislation.\u00a0\nAt the 5th Annual State of the Mobile Net Conference this past summer, Congressman Johnson delivered a keynote address where he noted the increasingly mobile nature of our economy.\u00a0\n\u201c[M]ore companies are looking to mobile as the future of media,\u201d Congressman Johnson noted, while the \u201c\u2018digital divide\u2019 means that minorities are more likely to access the internet from a mobile device than from a stationary computer.\u201d\u00a0\nThe conflux of these two events means that, more than ever before, we need to build protections into the technologies we use, and we need privacy legislation that works for us.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\nThe APPS Act answers this call.\u00a0 By bringing baseline privacy protections to mobile devices, the APPS Act would protect and empower consumers with transparency, notice, and control on mobile devices.\nClick HERE to view the letter.\n\u00a0\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20131205163646/http://hankjohnson.house.gov/press-release/rep-johnson-calls-white-house-look-apps-act-foundation-consumer-privacy-bill-rights"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5502641908824444, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}